86 Church of St. John the Baptist, Daluy. 



to their airs aud assig'ueyes whatsomever heretablie All and haill 

 the Lands and Barony of Earlstoun with the Castle Tower fortal- 

 ice manor places houses l)igging-s yards Orchyairds Parks 

 meadows dow-cats, Cuningars Coalls, Coallheuchs mosses muirs 

 pasturag'es woods fishings tennents tennaudries and services of 

 free tennents milnes milnelands and astricted multurs used and 

 wont with all their pertinents lyand within the parochin of Dairy 

 Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright and Shirefdonie of Wigtoun compre- 

 hending the particular tonnes lands patronage of St. John's Kirk 

 of Dairy teinds parsonage and viccarage of the said parochin and 

 uthers specified in the said Signature x x x and all pertaining 

 heretably of before to Mr William aud Alexander Gordounes 

 elder and younger of Earlstoune. 



13th 3Iatch, 1890. 



Mr Philip Sulley, Vice-President, in the chair. 



JVe7t> Members. — Messrs James Barbour, Glendarroch, Dairy; 

 James Moffat, Bank of Scotland, Annan; John Xeilsou, Mollance. 

 Castle-Douglas ; Vf alter Ovens, Torr, Auchencairn ; Dr Rossie, 

 Newabbey. 



Donations. — The Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific 

 Society of North Carolina ; the 29th Report of the Peabody 

 Museum, Harvard University ; and the Report of the Xatural 

 Science Association of Staten Island, New York. 



Exhibits. -Mr Rutherford exhibited a whorl found on the 

 farm of Lochbank, Newabbey ; and a tlint arrowhead from Mani- 

 toba. Mr Sulley exhibited adder beads and charms. 



Communications. 



\.—A Scottish Idyl. By the Rev. Wm. K. R. BedfuUD, M.A., 

 Hayes, Kent. (Communicated by Mr. J. AV. Whitelaw.) 



There is a pretty and somewhat fanciful painting by Millais, 

 which was exhibited in the London Guildhall Loan Collection of 

 1894, which represents a childish drum-boy. in the uniform 



